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Plot Summary:
A pharmaceutical sales rep visits a small town in Louisiana on business. He finds himself in a dark world of corruption and murder with 24 hours to live, running from the police, the mob and a sheriff that wants him dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Bayou Caviar (2018)
Plot Summary:
Rodney is a former boxing champ who, after a deathbed visit to his trainer and mentor, is propelled into reclaiming victory for his now simple life as a nightclub bouncer. He partners with a no-nonsense, lesbian photographer and an aspiring starlet to make a compromising tape with Isaac—a married, devout, Orthodox Jewish real estate mogul—that sets off a chain of events that brings down an empire.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Red Stone (2021)
Plot Summary:
With one bullet, Motley’s life spirals out of control as he’s forced to go on the run from the ruthless crime lord, Jed Haywood. The brother of Haywood's best friend Boons recently died in a terrible car accident and today is the funeral. He has 10 hours to bring Motley in and get to the cemetery. Over the course of a day, Motley and Boon play a game of cat and mouse as their fate brings them together for a climatic showdown.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic
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6 Ways to Die (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sonny "Sundown" Garcia is the top cocaine distributor in the United States, which has made him a very rich and powerful man. It has also made him plenty of enemies. John Doe is just such a man. A nameless man of mystery, John lives to see Sundown not just dead, but to suffer six meaningful losses before his death—his fortune, his freedom, his love, his reputation, his most valuable possession and, finally, his life. John hires six hit-men, each one assigned to inflict one of the six meaningful losses upon Sundown.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, twisted
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Money (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two wealthy businessmen are about to get away with $5 million in ill-gotten money until their plans are revealed by an uninvited house guest.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, twisted
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Coffin (2011)
Plot Summary:
Awakening from a deep sleep in the pitch black Sean Justice feels around him and realises that he is in a small wooden box and beside him lays his unconscious girlfriend. With only two hours of air time remaining a ransom demand is made of $500,000 dollars in cash for the location of their wooden prison.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, detective, scary, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Ash & Dust (2022)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in a small town where two modest couples find themselves caught up in a game of life & death with a vicious gang after the discovery of a mysterious box buried long ago.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Seventh Code (2013)
Plot Summary:
Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. Akiko finally finds Matsunaga. However, he leaves her again, warning her not to trust strangers in a foreign country. She tries to follow him, but she is attacked by thugs and dumped on the outskirts of town.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller, surprise ending
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Pawn (2013)
Plot Summary:
A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that's a front for the mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, disturbing, realistic, independent film
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Raging Fire (2021)
Plot Summary:
Shan is a highly respected cop with a long history of success in dangerous cases, however, his past soon comes back to haunt him when his former protégé seeks revenge against all those who have wronged him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: crime drama, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, hood, perverse, cult classic
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Double Threat (2022)
Plot Summary:
With ruthless mobsters on her tail, a young woman with a split personality becomes entangled with a man on a pilgrimage across the country to scatter his brother's ashes.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Last Three Days (2020)
Plot Summary:
After getting mixed up with a dangerous crime syndicate, an undercover cop wakes up to discover he is missing his partner, his wife, and three days of his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Pray for Rain (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Emma Gardner, a whip smart NYC reporter learns of her father's untimely death, she returns to her home town to find that the idyllic farming community of her childhood has been ravaged by drought and has become a place tormented by gangs and the ill effects of extreme poverty. She quickly figures out that her dad's accidental death was not accidental at all. The lists of possible suspects include overly zealous environmentalists, a local war lord and other farmers jealous of her father's outstanding reputation.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Eyes (2016)
Plot Summary:
6 strangers are kidnapped and through governmental technology have proof they have all killed before and are told 5 will die this night, one may walk, and the six have 2 hours to decide who gets to live.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Last Rampage (2017)
Plot Summary:
The true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, in the summer of 1978.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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No Sudden Move (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, neo noir, dramatic, hood, anamorphic, cult classic, action thriller, detective
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Mr. Six (2015)
Plot Summary:
Many years ago Mr. Six was a notorious gangster. That was back when there was still such a thing as honour among thieves, when criminals earned respect and maintained principles. These days Mr. Six is all but forgotten, a living relic residing in a narrow alley. One day Six's son, Xiaobo, is abducted by some spoiled punks after he scratches their precious Ferrari. Mr. Six realizes that he must do whatever it takes to get his son back — even if that means returning to the life he thought he had left behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, crime drama
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Survive the Game (2021)
Plot Summary:
When cop David is injured in a drug bust gone wrong, his partner Cal chases the two criminals who shot him. They all land at a remote farm owned by troubled vet Eric, and as Cal and Eric plot their defense, more of the gang arrives - along with a wounded David. Outnumbered, the three heroes must use stealth, smarts, and good shooting to take down the drug-dealing mob.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Caliber 9 (2020)
Plot Summary:
Milan, Nowadays: Fernando, son of Ugo Piazza, is a brilliant criminal defense lawyer whose mother, Nelly, has done everything in her power to raise him different from his father, a deplorable gangster.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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John Luther (2022)
Plot Summary:
Devikulam Police Station SI John Luther is a committed police officer, who even risks his life for policing. During an interrogation, he suffers ruptured eardrums and hearing loss. Will he be able to complete an investigation which he had to leave halfway?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Prophecy (2015)
Plot Summary:
The cyber crime investigation division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department finds a video on website "YOURTUBE." In the video, a man covered by a newspaper, warns that a fire will be set at a food processing company. More crime notices are soon found involving violent crimes. Geitsu is the main guy behind the group "Shinbunshi," which has posted the videos. He used to work as a temporary employee at an IT company, but was unfairly dismissed. He then begins doing manual labor work and meets the other members of "Shinbushi.".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
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She's Just a Shadow (2019)
Plot Summary:
A crime family becomes entangled in a vicious gang war while a serial killer cuts a swath through Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dead Draw (2016)
Plot Summary:
25 million dollars, 8 safety deposit boxes, and months before anyone will know it’s gone. But Harrison’s perfect heist turns deadly when his safe-cracker, Mack, discovers their getaway pilot brutally murdered. Someone knew about the job, someone set them up. Stranded in a frozen hangar, held hostage by someone outside, loyalty turns to suspicion and friends turn to enemies. Now it’s a race against time as the band of thieves try to uncover the rat and escape their troubled pasts…if they can survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Luck of the Draw (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jack Sweeny is a young man just trying to get a job. Turned down at another bank due to his criminal record he meets a girl, Rebecca, but also witnesses a 3 way shootout between 2 groups of criminals and the cops over a suitcase containing perfect plates for counterfeiting bank notes. Jack grabs the plates and attempts to sell them via his friend Zippo. However with at least three different groups ready to kill him for the plates, Jack finds it's just one double cross after another.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crime drama, independent film
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Essex Boys Retribution (2013)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years after Britain's most notorious gangland murders, the next generation of Essex Boys vie for control as revenge is sought by all sides.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Righteous Ties (2006)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric but faithful mafia, Chi-sung is sent to prison for his part in a gang fight. But when his parents are attacked by a rival mob and his own people take no action, he realizes that a decade of loyalty towards the gang has become futile. Determined to confront his own boss, he finds a way to escape from prison with his fellow inmates. Meanwhile, his friend Joo-joong is given the task to stop Chi-sung, forcing him to choose between the bond of friendship and loyalty towards the gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, satirical, disturbing
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Boon (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mercenary Nick Boon is trying to atone for his life as an enforcer for a ruthless syndicate. Running from his past, Boon moves to a remote area in the pacific northwest where he meets a struggling widow and her son. When he finds the pair living in fear of a criminal kingpin, Boon realizes the only way to protect them is to do what he does best: kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Rooster for Esculapio (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young working-class man comes from Misiones (an Argentinian province) to Buenos Aires, with a fighting rooster, looking for his brother, and gets involved with low life characters, who introduce him to a world of crime.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, interesting
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First We Take Brooklyn (2018)
Plot Summary:
An ex-felon joins an Israeli crime syndicate in Brooklyn.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending
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South Wind 2: Speed Up (2021)
Plot Summary:
Nenad, Maras his little brother, wants to follow the ilegal footsteps of his brother and now Maras and Baca have to free him from the clutches of the bad guys.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Queen of Hollywood Blvd (2017)
Plot Summary:
On her 60th birthday, the proud owner of a Los Angeles strip club, finds herself in hot water over a twenty-five year old debt to the mob, leading her on a downward spiral of violence and revenge through the underbelly of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing